http://www.dphotojournal.com/sony-cybershot-dsc-w170/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.dphotojournal.com/sony-cybershot-dsc-w170/#comment-141622 Alex Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:01:01 +0000 http://www.dphotojournal.com/sony-cybershot-dsc-w170/#comment-141622 I Cannot Agree with Your MORE !! Alejandro. 2004 saw the last of the best cybershots. Stopping at the DSC P200 in my experience. I haven't tried the W series, although it's the W170 is the next I was checking up on before buying. I needed to upgrade so I first got the T200, Took images in all kinds of settings, indoors/outdoors/flash/noflash, you name it. Then compare them with P200, P200 was miles ahead in picture sharpness, without any messing about with settings etc. Compared to my Nokia N73 3.1MP phone camera, it is about the same. say about 5% better.. how shameful. and thats only a phone camera not a serious camera. Then I quickly returned the T200 and went for T300. Guess what, absolutely no difference except more softness/blurrness from the extra 2MP. I dont know why Sony releases all this slick cool design rubbish. Surely, when people download the images onto their PC, and look at them in full 8mp or 10mp they will see plenty of blurr. I always look at background prints, street names, signs etc. at least with P200, its not perfect , but very acceptable... even the colour is good. I sold my P200 to upgrade to T200 ( which I got rid of) the T300 ( which I returned ), and was to be W170 .. But I have , in the meantime, bought a used P200 and will not get rid of it until a similar decent compact camera comes along. cant keep buying new cameras and returning them as it wastes a lot of time testing, and cost of return postage. So cybershots !!! looks like your old faithful loyal user is going for good. I still dont know what camera to get now. I Cannot Agree with Your MORE !! Alejandro.
2004 saw the last of the best cybershots. Stopping at the DSC P200 in my experience. I haven’t tried the W series, although it’s the W170 is the next I was checking up on before buying. I needed to upgrade so I first got the T200, Took images in all kinds of settings, indoors/outdoors/flash/noflash, you name it. Then compare them with P200, P200 was miles ahead in picture sharpness, without any messing about with settings etc. Compared to my Nokia N73 3.1MP phone camera, it is about the same. say about 5% better.. how shameful. and thats only a phone camera not a serious camera. Then I quickly returned the T200 and went for T300. Guess what, absolutely no difference except more softness/blurrness from the extra 2MP. I dont know why Sony releases all this slick cool design rubbish. Surely, when people download the images onto their PC, and look at them in full 8mp or 10mp they will see plenty of blurr. I always look at background prints, street names, signs etc. at least with P200, its not perfect , but very acceptable… even the colour is good. I sold my P200 to upgrade to T200 ( which I got rid of) the T300 ( which I returned ), and was to be W170 .. But I have , in the meantime, bought a used P200 and will not get rid of it until a similar decent compact camera comes along. cant keep buying new cameras and returning them as it wastes a lot of time testing, and cost of return postage. So cybershots !!! looks like your old faithful loyal user is going for good. I still dont know what camera to get now.

]]> http://www.dphotojournal.com/sony-cybershot-dsc-w170/#comment-131655 Alejandro Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:38:55 +0000 http://www.dphotojournal.com/sony-cybershot-dsc-w170/#comment-131655 This camera is amazing only at daylights. It has 5x optical Zoom (not very common in Sony Cybershots). Also it has some bizzarre things like "Smile Shutter" or a "Happy Faces" filter. The worst part is because as newer Cybershots, it doesn't have Manual settings. Almost everything is Automatic and selecting "Scenes" don't fix it. The camera tends to add ISO values on dark environments, but 3200 ISO ends in a blurry image. Newer Cybershots are Scrap (except "H" ones, but you can't carry one of those in your pocket). 2004 Cybershots are still better than newer ones. This camera is amazing only at daylights.
It has 5x optical Zoom (not very common in Sony Cybershots).
Also it has some bizzarre things like “Smile Shutter” or a “Happy Faces” filter.
The worst part is because as newer Cybershots, it doesn’t have Manual settings.
Almost everything is Automatic and selecting “Scenes” don’t fix it.
The camera tends to add ISO values on dark environments, but 3200 ISO ends in a blurry image.
Newer Cybershots are Scrap (except “H” ones, but you can’t carry one of those in your pocket).
2004 Cybershots are still better than newer ones.

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